Interesting, curious what the heck you are cranking. I have a 70 foot HG-70D and its about 500 turns up or down with the K2550. Good exercise and I do it 100 at a time, pull weeds from the flower bed
Points well made Jim. Would be nice if we could easily read out length of use (a good gauge of how how well something works and lasts) from a lot of our more costly 'stuff' like rotators, xceivers, a
Take a look at https://www.w3wvg.com/_mgxroot/page_10735.html Simple but effective. Don W7WLL Years ago I had this web site book marked, apparently on another computer, which showed the parts of the
From the Fulton K2550 winch instructions. Useful for other how to's too. "Always maintain a minimum of three (3) complete wraps of cable or rope on the drum" This supports Ron's note. This is cable w
This is another item (among many on theFulton installation sheet which is available on line) which should always be remembered. I suspect other competitive winch manufacturers offer the same advice o
That is what I use out here on the left coast, a tarred twisted line that is produced by a firm (Evanston?) up in the Seattle area. Used by the fishing fleets up and down the left coast for numerous
The name of the manufacturer I couldn't remember was Everson. I would imagine it may only be available locally here on the left coast but the info and URL is at https://www.eversoncordage.com/tarred-
The tar is deeply embedded and I've never had any issue with stickiness on the hands or running through pulleys. My end hangers here by the way are old sash weights I salvaged many many years back.
I was unaware of OSH Park so asked around locally if anyone had used them. Good input from one who has. Was also told of another in the area, Sunstone, maybe a bit more expensive, but with free desig
Circa 1965, while living in Portland, I topped enough off a 110 ft Fir tree at the property side to install a HyGain Thunderbird tri-bander. Did the work myself when I was young. Used a prop pitch mo
I never timed the manual time to run my HyGain HG-70HD crankup up or down because I always do it in 'shifts' with rests (maybe sit in a chair and work a 807 over for a few minutes), but I know it is
These camera and flag extending poles might also be a possibility, suspect they are available at various outlets. At least might be looked at. I've been toying with installing a flag pole here and th
Been following this thread with interest. I live about 400 yards from the ocean on the central coast of OR. Last summer I did some repair work on the 1st DE 5M traps of my old (really old) TH7DX. I w
Interesting. Got my TH7DX in late '82, maybe early '83. Instructions required the damping rope ONLY in the untrapped elements. I missed this part when I assembled mine, finally discarded the rope. Th
Agree, aluminum wrap markers and stamps. I use my set of alpha and numeric stamps I bought at Harbor Freight. Don W7WLL see mcmaster carr stamped / engraved your local Trophy shop mac/mc w5mc On 7/
Amen! Also use Thunderbird, works well for all the various groups I am on, this one, Yahoo and groups.io. Would like to see a viable way to allow the inclusion of a copy of a pic into the text or of
Was looking for something else re the USCG and ran across this 214 page Tower Manual dated 2002. Glanced through it, in particular was interested in the pages about 'riding the guys'!! Had not seen t
PB Blaster, best solution for freeing metal to metal items I've found. Tried many others before but none worked as well. Was put onto PB Blaster by the USCG maintenance team down the coast in Charles
K5IU's last sentence, last paragraph. Did vigorous discussion follow and did any of the antenna manufacturers acknowledge (or not) the work and adopt it (or not) or just continue to use the same old
Antennas and towers, debate topics that could go on for an eternity. My first concern is can I hear the station I want to hear? If not, are others somewhat near me hearing the station OK? If they are